All Rise is coming to an end.
Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN will host the legal drama’s third season, which will also be its last.
Season 3B, consisting of 10 episodes, kicks off Saturday, September 16, at 9/8c, via TVLine.
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All Rise is back!
The legal drama TV series, which originally premiered on CBS back in 2019, and was canceled after two seasons before being picked up for a third season by the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), returned on Tuesday (June 7).
Season three of the show, via Deadline, “picks up six months after the events of the sophomore finale and will bring about new beginnings for these judges, prosecutors and public defenders.”
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All Rise will have a spring premiere on OWN, after being resurrected by the network following its cancellation from CBS.
Star Simone Missick took to the show’s Instagram to reveal the big news about the upcoming season three.
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Oprah‘s OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has saved All Rise!
The show was cancelled by CBS back in May of 2021. The show will now get a 20-episode third season of the Warner Bros. TV-produced legal drama.
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We have some great news for fans of the CBS series All Rise!
The show was previously canceled by the network after two seasons and now it finally looks like another network is going to save the series.
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Tonight, CBS will air the all virtual episode of All Rise, which was the first series to commit to an episode like it during the pandemic.
Simone Missick, who stars as Judge Lola Carmichael in the series, opened up about the process of filming from her home and what fans of the show can expect to see.
“I’m glad that we’re telling this story. I’m glad that it’s present. I’m glad that we’re getting to see these characters go through what millions of Americans and people all over the world are dealing with,” she shared with ET of the episode.
Simone adds that “it feels wonderful to be able to tell such a present and important story and it’s almost like our love letter to the essential workers in L.A. — the men and women who are delivering groceries, and working as nurses and doctors and working in our court system. You can’t take a day off, so it seemed like a good idea. It wasn’t until we were all doing 12 different department jobs we said, ‘Oh no, this is way harder than we thought it was going to be.’”
Simone and her co-stars, including Lindsay Mendez, Marg Helgenberger, Jessica Camacho, Wilson Bethel, J. Alex Brinson and Ruthie Ann Miles, were sent costumes, props, lights and other equipment, all of which had to be sanitized, to their homes for the special episode.
While filming the episode, there were times that she was not in the same Zoom call or video chat with the person she was supposed to be interacting with.
To compensate, Simone explained that she taped pictures of each of her cast members on her screen.
“In rehearsal, I would look at everyone on the screen to get a sense of what their performance was going to be, and then I would start taping people’s faces up,” she told Variety. “As actors, it made us all depend on one another when it came to really connecting with the relationships these characters have and being able to ignore the technology and the connectivity issues.”
She also told both sites that while she can see virtual episodes for All Rise and shows alike happening for a few more, it shouldn’t become commonplace.
“No one involved wants to envision that this is the thing that keeps happening,” Simone told ET. “I got a chance to watch the episode. I’m so proud of what we did. It’s so real. This is, ‘I’m trying to do my job with [technology] in place.’ Would I love to see a multi-character legal drama set in peoples homes? No.”
She adds, “I want for actors and writers and creatives to get back to work safely and until the science is able to catch up, I feel like we’re going to see a bunch of people come up with different content that could live on a Netflix or a Hulu or a CBS and work because it’s telling a story.”
All Rise airs tonight, Monday, May 4 at 9/8c on CBS.
All Rise is set to produce a quarantine focused episode that will next month.
THR reports that the cast will start up production again for the episode, that will focus on the coronavirus pandemic and see the characters adjusting to a new normal from inside their homes.
According to a release, the episode will see Judge Lola Carmichael (Simone Missick) conducting a virtual bench trial, with Emily (Jessica Camacho) representing the defendant and Mark (Wilson Bethel) prosecuting.
“It’s a unique chance for our All Rise family to band together — in our different homes, even cities — to tell a story about resilience, justice and the power of community,” executive producer Greg Spottiswood shared about the first episode of its’ kind.
The episode will use FaceTime, Zoom, WebEx and other social media and online technology to film the virtual episode.
Virtual footage will be shot in each of the actors’ homes, with producers using visual effects to create the necessary backgrounds, and a cinematographer operating solo from a vehicle will also film footage of the empty streets of Los Angeles as it operates under social-distancing rules, with nonessential businesses closed.
In addition to the trial storyline, viewers will also see Mark and Quinn (Lindsey Gort) exploring their relationship while quarantined in different houses, Sara (Lindsay Mendez) taking a side job as a food delivery driver and Judge Benner (Marg Helgenberger) both overseeing the court and learning how to cook.
All Rise currently airs on Mondays on CBS.
